Social is an availability-aware monitoring area. It shows the social integrations currently offered to the workspace, the measurements a deployed service can report, and explicit reasons when a provider or measurement path is not available.
What can appear
The server decides which connections and panels exist for the current workspace. Current panel definitions can include:
- Connections: which social accounts are connected and what each can answer;
- LinkedIn page: organization posts and page activity;
- LinkedIn audience: follower movement and available audience composition;
- Reddit: brand mentions, communities, and supported sentiment summaries.
Provider approval, commercial access, environment support, plan access, and account permissions can all limit what is actually runnable.
Do not assume that a visible platform label means Alesta can connect or measure it for every workspace. Read the connection card and panel state shown in your current environment.
Connection and panel states
If Alesta cannot read the Social plan service at all, the page says that Social measurement is not available in the current build. It does not invent disconnected states for every panel.
Labeled preview data
The Social area can contain surfaces explicitly labeled mock data. These examples show how a future or newly connected reading will be arranged.
A value inside a mock data surface is illustrative. It is never a measurement of the selected workspace and must not be copied into a report.
Monitoring, not publishing
The Social area is currently a monitoring surface. It does not provide a live workflow for automatic post generation, scheduling, or publishing. Chat can help draft text when the current workspace tools support the required context, but you remain responsible for review and external posting.
Manage connections
Use the cards in Social for context-specific connection actions. Use Settings > Integrations for the full connection roster, including states, selected accounts, reconnect, change, and disconnect controls.
Retired providers can appear under Removed from Alesta in Settings only so you can revoke an old credential. They cannot be connected again.
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